Following yesterday’s cover artwork reveal, WWE Home Video UK just let loose the full content listing for the highly-anticipated Home Video offering, which will include: a documentary main feature, 19 matches spanning January through December 1997, and more extras!

All in all, that’s over 7 hours of footage on the DVD and with additional exclusive content planned for the Blu-ray edition a total runtime of nearly 8 hour and 30 minutes. So give us a “Hell Yeah” and get a disc-by-disc rundown of the greatest moments that ushered in the Attitude Era, right here…

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This is one of those rare times that I hope they cut out that annoying woman whistling through the entire match between Hbk and Sid at the Royal Rumble. God that bitch is annoying as hell. Has anyone else ever noticed this?

I can do without those stupid in house docudramas they always r boring, but the complete hitman matches on here is always a pleasure. High school i was target audence when i used watch WWF War zone. Plus that was such a cool nintendo game, commentary w vince n king from raw is war zone was so funny. Back before the world turned gay. Lol laughing on line and that nonsense. I think i will rent this tape or maybe buy it from ollies for a dollar in 3 yearz

The only thing that looks good is the doc and the matches r just disappointed too many repeats instead of grand zero I would had but taker vs hbk first hell in the cell match instead and add undertaker vs Bret Hart Summerslam 97 with hbk as special referee and the first triple threat match on raw for the intercontinental championship Owen Hart vs hhh vs Goldust and Brian phillman vs Goldust at Grand zero since it was his last ppv match before his death and Austin vs Owen at summer slam 97 cus it was one of Austin’s greatest matches ever and almost ended his career and other Austin suff like him stunning Santa Claus or stunning jim Ross and would add also Rocks first ic championship win against the game hhh himself

At the time hbk and taker at ground zero was disappointing yet upon reflection seeing how the match served it’s purpose ( getting the guys to hell in a cell from a story standpoint ) there match at ground zero is now considered good ( Michaels gets thrown around )

Made a decision definitely getting this on Blu-ray you gotta love Best Buy. I feel silly, I didn’t realize that you could ask the front and if they have it in the back…yeah you guys know. Probably going to do that with this one. I want that cage match on Raw between Sycho Sid and Bret Hart for the WWE championship. I also want the STONECOLD meets the Rock segment. I haven’t seen that since I was 6.

It was on the 50th anniversary set also , but the Bret vs Shawn was Blu-Ray only so it really hasn’t been on a lot of sets But Syd Vs Shawn was just on the Royal Rumble set , so why release that so quickly

As much as I was hoping to buy the Blu Ray, there’s nothing there to make me buy the Blu Ray. Once again, another set that has no Blu Ray extras that mean anything or give me a reason to shelve out an extra $10. DVD is just fine.

While I’m excited for this, there’s a distinct lack of ’97 mid-card guys that rarely get featured, like The Headbangers, Nation of Domination, Taka, Goldust, etc. Some of them are here, but it’s not as much as I had hoped. Glad to see some Shotgun matches, at least. Seems like the focus is almost entirely on the main breakout stars, which makes sense from a marketing point of view but leaves me wanting a little more.

Definitely not enough to detour me from buying it or anything – I think ’97 is a year worth reliving, and it has a lot of the important matches all on one set.

Well maybe they should. Do you care or I care about new buyers?? No. WWE Obviously cares.they are more geared towards people with the network. they have all that on there for 10 dollars a month as opposed to buying a DVD when it comes out for 20$. If anything their new buyers will probably be more attracted to the network and therefore not be buying DVDs.so if they would release more sets that are not loaded with repeats they would sell more DVDs and blue rays. Collectors are part of a good chunk of change that WWE makes.they spend their money just like everybody else to buy WWE product so maybe if they had more non repeat matches on these sets they would sell more DVDs?? I’m buying it regardless but just a thought. Just wish there wasn’t so many repeats.

I’m a collector that (eventually) gets every dvd/bluray. but for releases like this, I just wait until the price has gone down a lot (and I don’t mind getting used copies, that’s actually how I got a lot of releases that I didn’t care about that much for cheap).

Honestly the only selling point for me is the Round table discussion. I already own most of the matches and I’m sure many others do also. I’m interested to hear what they have to say though I’m sure most of its been said before but iI’m still looking forward to the interview.

Thinking about it, why not a Ruthless Aggression era set? I’d be intrigued to see it thru the eyes of nostalgia and hindsight. Was a pretty damn good era with Eddie Guerrero, Angle, HBK’s return, Lesnar’s first big run, Evolution, early Cena, Trish, Lita, Hulk Hogan’s last great run… It would be a helluva great doc and extras set. Better than another Attitude rehash.

Again, I feel like WWE is indirectly anchoring this entire release on the documentary itself, which is likely 65 minutes in length without any real effort. For the most part, these matches are throw away and are basically Superstar repetition. This is a lazy selection.

Jeez…enough with the Attitude sets. Now we’re doing an entire set based on 1997, the year Nitro was tanning their hide so bad they nearly went out of business. The WWE Unreleased set looks to be a home run. Meanwhile this is a strike out from top to bottom. Please quit flogging the Attitude era: a lot of it hasn’t even aged well. PASS. See you in September.

1997 was the most exciting year in wwf, its was so truely raw a transition when things changed so much so quickly. Its really my favorite time as a kid in 8th grader into 9th i was super excited, the hart cussing was like all new to do it live on usa…for bret to acknowledge vkm. The shifts in the whole freedom to get away from silly gimmicks…like we have now again..only 100x worse bc its so scripted…the change from blue skirt raw w red white blue ropes, the tron and ramp…thats truely a raw gritty feel…lost now with led lights on the freking posts….lol…christmas time like but overload…. The pyros were cool n different in 97 …The music was excting, b people to thorn eye …all together now and superstars theme 97 was so good…

Match selection is what is…some. Gr8. Some not…im a guy whose lookimg 4 deep cuts…but this time frame…had more change do quickly in every way….and it was different. The product not oversatutrated like 2019….i could go on in my love for Wwf 97. Can watch any show fron then now and truelt feel like anything can happen..

This sucks…waaaay too many repeats. I also gave up on the “best of RAW” series… but 1997 could’ve included: shamrock/Vader from cold day in hell, patriot can Bret from RAW, sids last match, Sid wins title from Bret. Taker/ farooq KOTR, Vader vs flash funk (gem)… gang wars between crush, savio , farooq, Brian pillmans XXX files… so much more

what I will say is that if you are a fan of the attitude era, this set plus the first volumes of the sets of the very same name (I exclude the third one because that obviously not only wasn’t for everyone’s taste and also didn’t cater to nostalgia as much due to the matches previously being unseen), you already have a pretty good collection of content from that timespan.

(and if you combine it with one of the big sets for you favorites, you are likely to major moments and matches)

I’m a bit disappointed because it’s the same wrestlers (and in many cases even the same matches) that are ALWAYS featured on sets like these.

I mean, I understand that you couldn’t do a set like this completely with DX, Stone Cold etc.

but only having Goldust appear in a throwaway bluray extra match? where is the controversial/tasteless (depending on who you ask) war between the racially-themed “gangs”? where are Pillman, Michinoku, Shamrock?

focussing almost exclusively on the “big” names makes this kind of a “missed opportunity”.

I think I counted 4-5 matches I haven’t seen or already own on this. I’ve already watched every PPV from 97 thanks to the Network. They need to make it worthwhile to actually pay for a Blu-Ray and the Blu-Ray extra matches are nothing special besides Goldust-Sultan. I was really excited for this but it turns out to be a big pass for me.

Yes I would much rather have a Blu-Ray set featuring decent matches from the smaller shows like Shotgun and Superstars involving mid-card guys than yet another DVD with a bunch of repeat matches involving the same Main Event guys that are always the main focus. Clearly there are still some big names and good matches on the smaller shows so it’s not like they only have jobbers. They even had WWE Title matches on Superstars back in the early-mid 90’s:

Not gonna lie I’m really disappointed by the match listing. Other than the 2 Shotgun Saturday matches I already own or have seen almost every other match. Was hoping for more rare, unseen or under appreciated matches and more mid-card guys. This is basically only matches featuring the main 5-6 guys. Not sure if I’ll even get this.

Agreed. I was expecting some repeats of the more important matches, but this really reads like a ‘Best of 1997’ set, which it didn’t need to be. Will watch the doc on the Network someday. Shame, because I thought this would be a day one purchase.

Decent enough list. All the big matches are there. Nothing on this screams buy it. I have 95 % of the matches already. I’d imagine the documentary will be interesting. The sets lack lots of rare matches simply because of how many attitude era themed sets there are available.

The selling point is the round table. They really should of had Bret in on this since he was so hesitant about going edgy.

Doubt I’ll get it for the Bret flip out or the shotgun Saturday night matches

An excellent set of matches – I’m looking forward to this one. Bit disappointed that the first HIAC didn’t make the cut (I thought it’d have been a shoo-in) but I guess you can’t have everything. Incidentally, slightly off-topic, has the inaugural HIAC match been released on Blu Ray before?